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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2018-03-09 16:12:54 -0800 |
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| committer | Brett Cannon <brettcannon@users.noreply.github.com> | 2018-03-09 16:12:54 -0800 |
| commit | 6826589415408e68e7872bfde30abbdff17772b2 (patch) | |
| tree | f01331d4c8eec0739eb675097680e1c286514f4b | |
| parent | fc5e0956fe492551c658ebe325ba77c0aa4f2adb (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-6826589415408e68e7872bfde30abbdff17772b2.tar.gz | |
Warn that dbm.dumb.open() can crash Python (GH-6047) (GH-6048)
(cherry picked from commit 10485ebd40669d3e17ab4f477c8c898543bcccd1)
Co-authored-by: Brett Cannon <brettcannon@users.noreply.github.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/dbm.rst | 5 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/dbm.rst b/Doc/library/dbm.rst index 32e80b2cf6..0150f5d5c6 100644 --- a/Doc/library/dbm.rst +++ b/Doc/library/dbm.rst @@ -347,6 +347,11 @@ The module defines the following: database has to be created. It defaults to octal ``0o666`` (and will be modified by the prevailing umask). + .. warning:: + It is possible to crash the Python interpreter when loading a database + with a sufficiently large/complex entry due to stack depth limitations in + Python's AST compiler. + .. versionchanged:: 3.5 :func:`.open` always creates a new database when the flag has the value ``'n'``. |